- Earlier in this chapter, we took a Word document…that contained content separated with tabs…so it looked like it was in columns,…but it really wasn't, it was just separated using tab stops.…Well, we wanted that to look a little bit nicer…and thanks to converting it to a table…and using table formatting we ended up with this.…But of course, you can always do the reverse.…If you wanted to turn your table into text,…it's a simple matter of selecting what you want to convert.…For example if I wanted all of these rows and columns…turned into regular text, I select them,…go to the Layout tab and Convert to Text.…

If you want the entire table to be converted,…click anywhere in the table,…click the little icon in the top left corner…for selecting an entire table…and then click Convert to Text.…When you do that, you get to choose…how you're going to separate the different columns.…Because we won't have real rows and columns,…we'll have hard returns and something separating…our content into columns, we get to choose…

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3/27/2017

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9/22/2015

Learn how to create, format, share, and print a wide variety of documents in the Office 365 version of Word. Author David Rivers covers creating new documents from templates and scratch, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more. He'll also show how to share documents with others and enhance your productivity with macros.